Note to the 5th Spanish edition

For you, my friend, the reader of this book: I have written the Holy Rosary to help you and me become absorbed in prayer when we pray to our Lady.

Don’t let the sound of words disturb you as you meditate on these thoughts: don’t read them aloud, for then they would lose their intimacy.

But do pronounce the Our Father and the Hail Marys of each decade clearly and without rushing: this will help you always to get more and more out of this way of loving Mary.

And don’t forget to pray for me.

The Author
Rome, on the Feast of the Purification,
February 2, 1952